As easy as it is to get distracted by the free-agent megadeals procured by Corey Seager, Marcus Semien, Javier Baez and Max Scherzer, perhaps the most important contract signed this winter was an extension.
Namely, the 11-year, $182 million deal that the Tampa Bay Rays did with wunderkind shortstop Wander Franco. That nearly doubled the previous record for a player with less than a year of service time, which pretty much confirms that young talent is still the most valuable currency in MLB today.
And so we ask: Who's next?
We've rounded up eight young stars—i.